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Tango01 | 09 Apr 2018 11:41 a.m. PST |
"In the first half of the nineteenth century, emotions were stirring among the ‘thinking classes' in France and Russia. You were indeed a brave intellectual if you publicised your true feelings during these turbulent times. Two prodigies born during the Napoleonic era (1799-1815), one in France and one in Russia, took the risk though, and came to the attention of the authorities for all the wrong reasons. Both Galois and Pushkin were young men who had already produced copious amounts of work; paradigm shifting material that fundamentally influenced the course of mathematics and literatura…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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